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most citedALICE: The Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph aboard the New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission

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astro-ph.EP2026

The Ultraviolet Spectrograph on ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer Mission (JUICE-UVS)

Kurt D. Retherford, Philippa M. Molyneux, Thomas K. Greathouse +51

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission, led by ESA, has an Ultraviolet Spectrograph (JUICE-UVS) contributed by NASA and built at Southwest Research Institute. JUICE-UVS is…

astro-ph.EP2023

Catalog of Ultraviolet Bright Stars (CUBS): Strategies for UV occultation measurements, planetary illumination modeling, and sky map analyses using hybrid IUE-Kurucz spectra

M. A. Velez, K. D. Retherford, V. Hue +9

Ultraviolet spectroscopy is a powerful method to study planetary surface composition through reflectance measurements and atmospheric composition through stellar/solar occultations…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 26 cited

The Lyman-α Sky Background as Observed by New Horizons

G. Randall Gladstone, Wayne R. Pryor, S. Alan Stern +22

Recent observations of interplanetary medium (IPM) atomic hydrogen Lyman-α (Lyα) emission in the outer solar system, made with the Alice ultraviolet spectrograph on New Horizons (N…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 117 cited

Structure and Composition of Pluto's atmosphere from the New Horizons Solar Ultraviolet Occultation

Leslie A. Young, Joshua A. Kammer, Andrew J. Steffl +23

The Alice instrument on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft observed an ultraviolet solar occultation by Pluto's atmosphere on 2015 July 14. The transmission vs. altitude was sensitive…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 35 cited

Temporal Variability of Lunar Exospheric Helium During January 2012 from LRO/LAMP

Paul D. Feldman, Dana M. Hurley, Kurt D. Retherford +8

We report observations of the lunar helium exosphere made between December 29, 2011, and January 26, 2012, with the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) ultraviolet spectrograph on N…